The chilling slogans and a flagrant demonstration of nationalist symbols during the neo-Nazi march in Kiev reminded the Czech President Milos Zeman of Hitler's Germany. He said something was “wrong” both with Ukraine and the EU which didn’t condemn it.

Zeman was commenting on
the appalling scenes, which showed thousands of Ukrainian
nationalists holding a torchlight procession across the Ukrainian
capital on Thursday to commemorate the 106th birthday of Stepan
Bandera, a Nazi collaborator and the Ukraine nationalist
movement’s leader during World War II.

"There is something wrong with Ukraine,”the Czech Republic's
leadertoldradio F1 on Sunday. “Yesterday evening I was browsing
the Internet and discovered a video showing the demonstration on
Kiev’s Maidan on January 1.”

“These demonstrators carried portraits of Stepan Bandera,
which reminded me of Reinhard Heydrich,” Zeman said
referring to one of the main architects of the Holocaust and at
the time a Reich-Protector of Czech Republic’s territories.

“The parade itself was organized similar to Nazi torchlight
parades, whereparticipants shouted the slogan:
‘Death to the Poles, Jews and communists without
mercy,”Zeman explained.

Bandera was the head of the Organization of Ukrainian
Nationalists (OUN), which collaborated with Nazi Germany, and was
involved in the ethnic cleansing of Poles, Jews and Russians.

“Glory to the nation! Death to enemies!","Ukraine belongs to Ukrainians"and"Bandera will return and restore
order",were the
repeated slogans during the neo-Nazi march. Some of the
participants wore World War II Bandera's insurgent army uniforms
while others paraded with red and black nationalist flags.

The Czech President said something is “wrong” not only
with Ukraine, but also with the European Union, which did not
protest or condemn this action.

"Don't forget that Bandera is considered a national hero in
Ukraine, his image is hanging in the Maidan, his statue is in
Lvov. In reality, he was a mass murderer," Zeman said last
summer on Czech Television.

Czech President Milos Zeman: "While Stepan Bandera is seen in
#Ukraine as
a national hero, the fact remains that he was a mass murderer"

Russia too has on
numerous occasions condemned the resurgence of neo-Nazi
traditions in Ukraine and considers such displays of militant
nationalism as means to fabricate history.

“Torch-lit marches in Ukraine demonstrate that it is
continuing to move along the path of the Nazis!” Konstantin
Dolgov, the foreign ministry's human rights envoy, said last
week. “And this is in the center of civilized Europe!"